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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation posttraumatic stress disorder

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  • noun Initialism of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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  • noun an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images

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